Ten Rings

The Ten Rings were a group of foreign fighters based in Kunar Province, Afghanistan. They speak Pashto, Arabic, Farsi, Uzbek, Kyrgyz, Kazakh, and Russian primarily, but as they are made up of foreign fighters, they speak a variety of other languages.

History
The Ten Rings were a group of foreign fighters founded in Kunar Province by a man named Raza, whose goal was to control all of Asia. In 2009, having captured Stark Industries weaponry (including the new Jericho missile plans), they took over the town of Gulmira and forced many of its inhabitants to make a 10-mile walk to whatever crude homes they could find, the ruins of another village, or a Soviet smelting plant. Without international pressure or intervention, local warlords took over large areas of land from the civilians without any opposition. Jericho missiles were fired, scaring off the people and allowing the Ten Rings to take over the villages as new bases. They were eventually stopped by a prototype robot called "Iron Man", flown by the inventor and weapons dealer Tony Stark, who invented the weapons they stole. Gulmira was liberated, although the United States declared that they were not responsible for the attack.

Soon, the Ten Rings became weaker as they lost their Maggia allies, who supplied them with weapons. Their under-the-table business partner, Stark Industries CEO Obadiah Stane, took over their plans to build an Iron Man suit after a destroyed Mark I model, killing many of the militants and paralyzing Raza. In 2011, their Kinshasa cell succeeded in capturing a US pilot, but the pilot was freed by Iron Man and the organization defeated again.

The Ten Rings were taken over by a man called "The Mandarin", who launched a series of bombing attacks against US airbases and even the TCL Chinese Theatre in Los Angeles, California in 2013. The result of the attacks was increased publicity for them, but they were eventually brought down by Iron Man, who captured The Mandarin.